[pct-l] A Brief Introduction

[rubberchuckie at yahoo.com (Chuckie V)]

Hi gang,
I've written a few posts in the past and I figured I should finally introduce myself, on Strider's encouragement.  My name is Chuckie and after thru-hiking the PCT last year, I have become am an alcoholic and a dead beat dad, perhaps since the trail introduced me to the true benefits of beer and left me dead beat; I don't know.  I also haven't held a job for more than a week at a time since completing my big hike.  My doctor says it's a fear of work commonly found in people who've just finished a major thru-hike, but I'm not so sure.  "I don't fear work," I assured him.  "I just figure I shouldn't deprive somebody who really loves it."  Anyway, I am a thrity-something degenerate in need of my next fix...so I am planning another thru-hike.  And again, on the PCT.  Friends of mine (and there's not many of them left) wonder why I would attempt the PCT again after having already completed it.  "Why not the AT or the CDT?"  Well, I don't think anybody on this list who's hiked the PCT
 needs an explanation.  As far as I'm concerned, the PCT has it all and it'd take a lifetime of hiking and sleeping on it to see some of that 'all'...a very small sum of that 'all'.  At any rate, I'm not sure when I'll set out, it could be a few years from now, but I know why.  In fact, others seem to know why just as well...my friend Yogi, for example.  She's hiked the PCT the past two years.  Gottago has also set foot on the PCT more than once.  And now I read that Tangent is planning another thru-hike...the same one he did last year.  We are a strange breed!
 
Chuckie V (AKA "Funnybone!") 
Boulder, Bend, Buellton, Beer
 
PS...I have a copy of Ray Jardines 'PCT Hiker's Handbook' for sale if anyone might need a copy.  I might just do the Ebay thing, where they've sold up to $100.  Money like that can buy a lot of Snickers bars, if it's not spent on beer first. 
 
 
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:55:15 EST
From: Bighummel@aol.com
Subject: [pct-l] Teach Your Children


Keep the introductions coming.  It is good to 
hear of your hiking roots and 
how the concept of the PCT came to grow in your 
mind.  

One of the themes that I am catching from the 
many introductions is that 
many/most found their love of hiking and camping 
in their youth, as children.  I 
thank my parents for this introduction to the 
wilderness and its virtues and, 
of course, I am trying to pass it on to my 
children. 

I enjoy taking them to some of the fantastic 
spots in the Sierra and in the 
Channel Islands and other great places and they 
look forward to the next one 
and now are getting into the planning.  I look 
forward to my first overnight 
campout with my 3 1/2 year old daughter and she 
bugs me about this constantly as 
she missed going hiking with her older brothers 
this summer.  

I hope that one of them will follow in my 
footsteps, or better yet hike side 
by side with me along the PCT again!  I know that 
this is a vain hope and that 
they will do what they find to love and not what 
I try to teach them to love. 


Greg Hummel
"Strider"




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